Just One More Thing

'Puter understood the Obama Administration to hold forth that consumers, companies, banks and states borrowing (leveraging) at crazy levels well in excess of their abilities to repay got us into this recession/depression/Armageddon.

The Obama Administration's proposed remedy is for the federal government to borrow at levels well in excess of its ability to repay and dump the resulting funds into hastily thought out programs purported to stimulate the economy.

Would someone please explain to poor, benighted 'Puter how if a single dose of poison makes you sick, a double dose of the same poison cures what ails you?